Build your own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games

Build your own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games is a book that uses game-like examples with increasing sophistication to develop a 2D game engine that enables readers to acquire the experience and core-understanding of foundational concepts needed in order to build complex and fun 2D games that can be played across the internet via popular web-browsers.§§This book isolates and presents relevant concepts from software engineering, computer graphics, mathematics, physics, game development and game design in the context of building a 2D game engine from scratch. Based on HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL, the book analyzes the source code needed to create a game engine that is suitable for implementing typical casual 2D videogames. Through game-like examples the book guides the reader through essential core-concepts used in game engines while understanding how they interconnect with game development and design. In this way, by the end of the book the reader will understand the core-concepts and implementation details of a typical 2D game engine, learn insights into how these concepts affect game design and game play, and, have access to a versatile 2D game engine that they can expand upon or utilize to build their own 2D games from scratch with HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL.§§- Assists the reader in understanding the core-concepts behind a 2D game engine§- Guides the reader in building a functional game engine based on these concepts§- Leads the reader in exploring the interplay between technical design and game experience design§- Teaches the reader how to build their own 2D games that can be played across internet via popular browsers§§